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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP:  FreeBSD will not mount the /usr and swap partitions!
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:57:49 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Dave Hartzell <hartzeld@cc.sdstate.edu>

Dave Hartzell wrote:
> Being unable to mount a DOS hard drive, but able to mount a floppy,
> someone told me that if I run a `sh MAKEDEV wd1' that it might fix the
> problem of not reading my MS-DOS partitions.

You shouldn't have done that - you shot yourself in the foot.. :-)

> boots, it can't mount the /dev/wd1aXXX partitions!  That includes the
> swap, proc and /usr stuff, so I can't get any man pages up.

Yep, blown away by the MAKEDEV.  Do this now:

	cd /dev
	sh MAKEDEV wd1s1a
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project